What's your latest "Discovery"

I picked up The Song Remains the Same concert DVD from Zeppelin about a year ago. I've gone through phases where I spend all of my music time watching it. I'm watching it right now actually. I love watching Page and Bonham. Also Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon. I'd always liked this album, but I really started listening to it about a month ago.

Marco - This is a really great thread. I have been running out of new music recently, since I just enjoy listening too much after finishing the setup of my new system. I picked up several suggestions here and still have long list left.

Following some of the recommendations here, I went out and got the following records:
White Stripes - Elephant
Patty Griffin - Living with Ghosts, Flaming Red
Crouching Tiger - Soundtrack
Madredeus - Anthologia, Ainda
Misia - Ritual
Amalia Rodriguez - The history of Fado

I guess I really got into Fado. I had already seen Lisbon Story a while ago and liked the music but never picked up on it. I haven't had much of a chance to listen to the history CD but it looks like it has a really good collection of traditional Fado singers (Including Amalia Rodriguez and Maria Teresa de Noronha) Not the best recording but worth having.
On the more modern site I'll probably start picking up some more White Stripes Album. I kind of left alternative for a while after leaving my teens and early twenties behind, this one was really refreshing though.

And since this thread is really more about discoveries, here are some of my suggestions:

Rabih-Abou Khalil - Sultans Picnic, Arabian Waltz
This is one of my favorite artists: great original compositions, great soloists and the band exhibits real coherence when playing together. Listen to Sunrise in Montreal on Sultans Picnic, the Harmonica solo is brilliant and fits in surprisingly well into this Middle Eastern/Western fusion jazz. Arabian Waltz is quite different, mixing in elements of western classical music. Also Enja Music does a wonderful recording job on all the records. And if you are lucky you can find them on vinyl.

Zakir Hussein and the Rhythm experience - The Rhythm Experience
Wonderful slightly modern perspective on Indian Classical Music, one of the best Tabla players in the World. And great to watch at a concert (He appears quite often on the west coast in concerts since he is living in LA).

Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy - The Fire this time
Great live big band brass album. Great recording as well.

Tom Waits - Real Gone
No need to say much about this one...

That's at least a short selection of my current favorites.

Best wishes,

Rene

The Daktari's Soul Explosion is a great set of Afrofunk tunes in the James Brown via Fela vein. Basically a group of Brooklyn session guys with fake Nigerian names but the music works great...big, fat bass lines and great horn work. Has that authentic retro, swimmy, fat-bottomed 70s funk sound. On permanent rotation on the car CD player.

Volebeats:Country Favorites (subtitled Detroit, Michigan). A great sounding alt.country cd with fine vocals and guitar work. Runs the gamut from hard honky tonk to grunge country to pop rock to bluesy stuff. For once a cd without at least 6 songs of filler. It's Buddy Holly meets REM meets the Beach Boys meets 60s garage. Fun cd.

Drive By Truckers:Dirty South. Another great sounding alt.country cd with good vocals and triple guitar attacks. It's the Outlaws meets REM. Absolutely first rate lyrics. A good one to crank up the audio rig.

Siliab - I've loved the Daktaris disk ever since I stumbled across it a few years back, but I've never heard that backstory about who was responsible. In fact, not only does the jacket list all those African-sounding names of the players, but also specifies it as having been recorded in Lagos, Nigeria. Although it states it was mixed in NYC by the same guy (who doesn't have an African name) credited as recording producer, I kind of wondered - since the topic isn't addressed elsewhere - whether this really was supposed to mean remastered for CD. But there were more seeds of doubt: not all the players' names sound genuinely African or even real, no year of recording or original release is listed, and the liner notes and cover photo of a lion with vultures chowing down a kill on the savanna seem a bit arch and fakey. And why don't I see the Daktaris on any Afro-funk comps? But the sound - how could that deliciously dirty voodoo soul stew (to quote one of the song titles) not be authentic? It fairly screams 'vintage'. Could that have been achieved synthetically? And the tunes are too great not to strike me as being the real deal straight outta mother Africa. But at the end of the day the record's just so damn good I decided not to worry about where it really might have come from and simply enjoy it. Still somewhat of a mystery, but I heartily second the recommendation.